Download or read book Re enacting the Artist written by Larry Givens and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Catalog of Ampico Reproducing Piano Rolls written by Elaine Obenchain and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rebuilding the Player Piano written by Larry Givens and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instructions On How To Rebuild The Player Piano And Related Instruments.
Download or read book Agape Agape written by William Gaddis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped inaugurate a new movement in American letters. Now comes his final work of fiction, a subtle, concentrated culmination of his art and ideas. For more than fifty years Gaddis collected notes for a book about the mechanization of the arts, told by way of a social history of the player piano in America. In the years before his death in 1998, he distilled the whole mass into a fiction, a dramatic monologue by an elderly man with a terminal illness. Continuing Gaddis's career-long reflection on those aspects of corporate technological culture that are uniquely destructive of the arts, Agape Agape is a stunning achievement from one of the indisputable masters of postwar American fiction.
Download or read book The Welte Mignon written by Charles Davis Smith and published by Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' Association. This book was released on 1994 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pianos and Their Makers written by Alfred Dolge and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Music of Conlon Nancarrow written by Kyle Gann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expatriate American experimentalist composer Conlon Nancarrow is increasingly recognised as having one of the most innovative musical minds of this century. His music, almost all written for player piano, is the most rhythmically complex ever written, couched in intricate contrapuntal systems using up to twelve different tempos at the same time. Yet despite its complexity, Nancarrow's music drew its early influences from the jazz pianism of Art Tatum and Earl Hines and from the rhythms of Indian music; Nancarrow's whirlwinds of notes are joyously physical in their energy. Composed in almost complete isolation from 1940, this music has achieved international fame only in the last few years. Born in 1912, the son of the mayor of Texarkana, Nancarrow fought in the Lincoln Brigade, then fled America to Mexico City to avoid being hounded for his former Communist affiliations. The author travelled to Mexico City to research Nancarrow's music and to discuss it with him. He analyses sixty-five works, virtually the composer's complete output, and includes a biographical chapter containing much information never before published.
Download or read book Off the Record written by Neal Peres Da Costa and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Off the Record, author and pianist Neal Peres Da Costa explores Romantic-era performance practices through a range of early sound recordings--acoustic, piano roll and electric--that capture a generation of highly-esteemed pianists trained as far back as the mid-nineteenth-century.
Download or read book The Golden Age of Automatic Musical Instruments written by Arthur A. Reblitz and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Image from the collections of Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village used on p. 14;neg. no. P.833.95043.2 Acc 1660.
Download or read book Mechanical Music written by Kevin McElhone and published by Shire Publications. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the history, development, use and fall from favour of many types of exotic instruments, from pocket-sized musical boxes to roll-playing pipe organs and everything else in between. This book describes pianolas, organettes, roller organs, orchestrions, nickelodeons, carillons and more.
Download or read book Encounters with Conlon Nancarrow written by Jürgen Hocker and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encounters with Conlon Nancarrow, by Jürgen Hocker, is the first extensive biography of the American-Mexican composer whose works for the player piano exhibit an innovation and complexity which remains unmatched. Hocker gives insight to the life and personality of the often reclusive Nancarrow, making use of many as-yet-unpublished sources and interviews as well as a timeline and a comprehensive catalogue of Nancarrow's works.
Download or read book Modern Organ Tuning written by Hermann Smith and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Ethnic Piano Rolls in the United States written by Darius Kučinskas and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Ethnic’ piano rolls are an important part of a still-neglected musical heritage. Having come to prominence in the first part of the twentieth century, they encapsulate the musical life of several continents and various ethnic communities based in the USA. This volume represents the latest research on these unique and rare cultural artefacts.
Download or read book Reproducing Pianos Past and Present written by Kent A. Holliday and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reproducing piano rendered faithful re-performances of classical and popular piano solos at a time when cylinder and disc recorders were in their infancy. It played notes from a perforated paper roll, but unlike the player piano it was able to replicate expressive performance elements such as articulation, dynamics, and pedaling. Busoni, Granados, Hoffmann, Rachmaninov, and Ravel made thousands of piano rolls for the reproducing piano.
Download or read book Piano Servicing Tuning and Rebuilding for the Professional the Student and the Hobbyist written by Arthur A. Reblitz and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides all the information needed for restoring and maintaining pianos, both for professionals and amateurs.
Download or read book The Computer and Music written by Harry B. Lincoln and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of its kind, this is book consists of twenty-one essays describing the many different uses of the digital computer in the field of music. Musicologists will find that various historical periods-from medieval to contemporary-are represented, and examples of computer analysis of ethnic music are considered. Edmund A. Bowles contributes an entertaining historical survey of music research and the computer. Lejaren Hill here discusses computer composition, both in this country and in Europe, and gives a bibliography of composers and their works. A. James Gabura's essay describes experiments in analyzing and identifying the keyboard styles of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. There is also a section of particular interest to music librarians.
Download or read book Player Piano written by Arthur A. Reblitz and published by Vestal Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treatise on how player pianos function, and how to get them back into top playing condition if they don't work. For beginners and experienced technicians alike.
